Tales from the Borderlands Ep2 trailer is here

Tales from the Borderlands Ep2 trailer is here

Alright, kiddos...

Today we would like to share the world premiere trailer for Episode 2 of Tales from the Borderlands: A Telltale Games Series.

In this second episode of the season, 'Atlas Mugged,' the discovery of the Gortys Project fuels a madcap race to find just what the Atlas Corporation was up to prior to Hyperion's take over of Pandora. Our intrepid heroes are not the only ones on the trail. Vault Hunters, Bounty Hunters, Vasquez, and a giant monster thing with a mouth that looks like a... well, you'll see... are all in pursuit. And to complicate matters, Rhys is being haunted by visions of a dead despot AND what Vaughn looks like without his shirt on. Can Fiona and Sasha hold everything together? That's up to you.  

Tales from the Borderlands - Episode 2, 'Atlas Mugged' Trailer

The episode is expected to be available for digital download the week of March 17th on PC/Mac via the Telltale Online Store, Steam, and other digital distribution outlets, and on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Android, and iOS devices. Follow Telltale Games on Twitter and Facebook for the latest details on exact release dates as they are confirmed. 

Set on the unforgiving world of Pandora after the events seen in Borderlands 2,Tales from the Borderlands is a five part episodic game series full of Borderlands' trademark humor following two adventurers on their quest for greatness.

GamesBeat awarded the season premiere of Tales from the Borderlands a 96/100score, calling it, "A hilarious knockout," adding, "Zer0 Sum stands tall as the ultimate point-and-click science project: combine the beloved Borderlands lore and setting with the shining vision of an artistic studio, crank up the heat, and enjoy." GameSpot awarded the episode a 9 out of 10 score, calling the episode,"...a beautiful new twist on the Borderlands experience with loveable leads and breathless action sequences."  Destructoid also awarded the game a 9 out of 10score, saying, "Telltale really knocked it out of the park with this one,"  later adding, "...this might be the funniest Borderlands game to date."

Players will control two characters throughout the season: Rhys, a Hyperion 'suit' with dreams of being the next Handsome Jack, and Fiona, a Pandoran con artist looking to score her biggest ever swindle. Rhys and Fiona are thrown together as unwilling partners in an adventure to recover cash they both think is theirs. This journey will take players on a wild ride where gangsters, bandit lords, and Vault Hunters are just some of the obstacles they will encounter in this new take on the award-winning universe created by Gearbox Software.

Tales from the Borderlands: A Telltale Games Series - Episode 2: 'Atlas Mugged' is rated 'M' (Mature) for Violence, Blood, Language, and Use of Alcohol by the ESRB. The series is published digitally by Telltale Games in partnership with Gearbox Software and 2K.

For more information on Telltale Games, visit the official website, Facebook, and follow Telltale Games on Twitter.

For more information on Gearbox Software, visit the official website, follow Gearbox Software on Twitter, and like Borderlands on Facebook.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt release date revealed

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt release date revealed

CD PROJEKT RED, the creators of The Witcher series of games, announce the release of the Witcher 3: Wild Hunt PAX East 2015 Official Gameplay Video.

Narrated by Peter Gelencser, Senior Level Designer, the new 7-minute gameplay video takes players on a guided tour of parts of No Man’s Land, one of the giant regions available for exploration in the game. Watch Geralt discover the secret behind the phantom of the trade route and see him fight a Royal Wyvern to save members of a remote village in need of help.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a story-driven, next-generation open world role-playing game, set in a visually stunning fantasy universe, full of meaningful choices and impactful consequences. In The Witcher, you play as Geralt of Rivia, a monster hunter tasked with finding a child from an ancient prophecy.

The game is scheduled to launch May 19th, 2015, on Xbox One, PC, and PlayStation®4. Visit www.thewitcher.com and buy.thewitcher.com for more information about the game and pre-order availability worldwide.

Unfinished Business: Film Review

Unfinished Business: Film Review

Cast: Vince Vaughn, Dave Franco, Tom Wilkinson, Sienna Miller, Nick Frost, James Marsden
Director: Ken Scott

Re-teaming director Ken Scott with his star of Delivery Man Vince Vaughn isn't quite the magic touch you'd perhaps be expecting in this latest.

Vaughn is a brow-beaten Dan Trunkman, a minerals salesman who decides the plans of his boss Chuck (Miller) to restructure is a bridge too far and walks out. The problem is Trunkman needs a job and spotting two fellow ex-employees in the car park (Tim and Mike aka Tom Wilkinson and Dave Franco), the group forms their own splinter company.

A year later, and Trunkman is chasing a deal which could see them beat their final boss - if they can just get some face-time with a big boss in Europe...

So the trio sets off to secure the handshake - despite the G8, a gay fetish event, Oktoberfest, and a marathon taking place at the same time in Berlin where the boys need to go.

Unfinished Business is a film whose title says it all.

The scrappy non-comedy cum drama reeks of inconclusive writing, an inability to know what it wants to be (Is it comedy? No, as there's not enough funny in it. Is it sentimental drama? Nope, because that side is under-cooked too) and a central trio of leads who just really don't have what it takes.

If you've ever wanted to see a film where Dave Franco plays dumb and gets off on seeing naked breasts or a flick where Tom Wilkinson demands to see more "titty" from an overweight sex maid that he ordered, makes a filthy Iron Man pun and does ecstasy, then this is the film for you. Equally, if you've ever wanted to see Nick Frost in a leather clad outfit doing business from a toilet cubicle, then rush off because this film clearly floats your boat.

The problem is that Unfinished Business could have actually made something of itself if it had decided what it wanted to be - you soon get tired of Wilkinson's overtly sexual banter and Franco's innate stupidity (it's never quite explored why he's as dumb as he is and it's frankly, embarrassing) and the raunch that the poster would promise is never remotely delivered. It's the tamest, lamest EuroTrip ever.

So, what are you left with?

Bizarrely and perhaps to its credit, Vaughn plays it all straight, with an air of a man about to crack in a mid-life crisis with his James Corden lookalike son being bullied and his family struggling for cash.

If it were a drama, then there could have been something of the sincerity that the father / family scenes strive for (even if they are a little after school special) and occasionally achieve. If it had been a look at the desperations and struggles of a man teetering on the edge in a society and work-force that's savage, then it would have hit something.

Instead, Unfinished Business is a film that squanders everything; it's an excruciatingly unfunny journey that hits none of the highs on its route and manages to rankle from its Jerry Maguire-esque beginnings right to its very end.

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Ping Pong Summer: DVD Review

Ping Pong Summer: DVD Review

Rating: M
Released by Roadshow Home Ent

Mixing The Way Way Back's nostalgic summer idea and some awkward moments, Ping Pong Summer is yet another coming of age tale

Marcello Conte stars as an awkward kid whose loves of hip hop and break dancing don't translate into street cred. When forced on a family holiday with his parents and sister finds love in the form of drop out Stacy Summers but conflict with the local bullies at the fun hub arcade.

It all culminates in a table tennis showdown to help zzz regain some cred and possibly win the girl...

Long held camera shots squeeze out the awkwardness and the whole of ping pong summer feels like a mickey taking homage rather than an ode to the 80s. But thanks to all the aesthetics and nuances of the period, ping pong summer emerges as somewhat of a goofy endearing treat - even if it does take a while to warm to the characters and story

Newstalk ZB Movie Review: Focus, Seventh Son and A Walk Among the Tombstones

Newstalk ZB Movie Review: Focus, Seventh Son and A Walk Among the Tombstones

http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/saturday-mornings-with-jack-tame/audio/darren-bevan-focus-seventh-son-walk-among-the-tombstones/

If I Stay: Blu Ray Review

If I Stay: Blu Ray Review

Rating: M
Released by 20th Century Fox Home Ent

Based on the Young Adult novel by Gayle Forman of the same name, Kickass' Chloe Grace Moretz stars as Mia, a kid growing up in a musical family.

Her mum and dad (Enos and Leonard) used to be in a local rocker band, her younger brother's into Iggy Pop, but Mia's more classically inclined, with a penchant for the cello which is encouraged not indulged by those around her.

When a snow day is called, the family heads out together for a road trip, but a road accident changes Mia's life - and her family's - forever. Trapped in a coma, Mia must decide whether to return to life or move on.

There's a mix of the quaver of notes and the quiver of hearts (as you'd expect) in this young adult outing as it follows the usual path of first love, obstacles and naivetes.
With its bon mot of "Life is what happens when you're making plans", it plunges into the traditional tropes of the genre but without any real emotion (outside of Grace-Moretz's occasionally vulnerable performance as the prodigy) and with a dollop of cheesiness and stereotyped characters sprinkled liberally within (and plucked from a range of other stories).

Grace-Moretz brings a sensitivity and tangible sense of a life on a precipice during her hospital set scenes, but the flashbacks charting her life as she waits to see if she's got into a prestigious musical college, works through the good and bad of her first relationship with soft-rocker Adam (Blakely) and generally reflects on what's gone occasionally bring the movie into a lull. She manages to channel the uncertainty of diving into any world naturalistically, but the Lovely Bones style framing starts to drag things down into a predictably syrupy mire.

That said, Cutler does relatively good work with the subject matter (pseudo sick lit perhaps) and doesn't ever let the horror of what's going on swamp the movie. But perhaps, that's also some of the real problem here - a lack of real connection and a trite fashion of dealing with a wildly sanitised approach.

While the family flashbacks have a warmth and a corny sense of life (witness a group singalong of Smashing Pumpkins' Today around a campfire in a moment Mia describes as perfect), there's little heart as the rest plays out. The one stand-out moment comes when Stacy Keach's distraught Gramps sits by Mia's bed and pours out all the pent up emotions and repressed sadness that comes in such situations, with his heartbreaking final words mustering all the emotional tone that's needed for the rest of the film. (Though, admittedly, that could send it over the edge into overly mawkish)

Along with the usual cliched lines that are made to make teens swoon, and given the success of The Fault in Our Stars, If I Stay will benefit from having an already in-built audience determined to cry their way through the oh-so recognisable and relatable issues of life and love; as a story of a teen facing her own mortality, thanks to some unoriginal imagery (lights outside of the hospital, a white light in the corridors, music on speakers around the ward), it feels too formulaic - despite Grace-Moretz's charismatic performance, If I Stay is just another sanitised dollop of teen / young adult fare.


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Victorian London comes to Auckland for the Order 1886 launch

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